Photo courtesy of AP. Michelle Obama on 60 Minutes. Will this look make the yet to be named Michelle Obama style guide?
Excuse me if I sound mushy. But this is still new. Americans are used to more formality on the part of first couples such as what we've seen with Pres. Bush and his wife.
The Obamas represent a welcome change as an openly affectionate and romantic couple for many Americans. Some experts say that the soon-to-be first couple embody the ideal healthy relationship, and that they can stir up love around the country. The New York Daily News even predicted a baby boom attributed to election night friskiness inspired by the Obamas. (the Today Show's website.)
Seeing the Obamas relate to each other and to their beautiful daughters is probably renewing the hope of single people everywhere who may have given up on finding The One and having a family. They are a real-life example that long-term relationships can work, even in spite of the high divorce rate and increases in numbers of couples who choose to cohabitate.
For African Americans, this is even more significant given the fact that roughly 70 percent of all black babies are born out of wedlock. Maybe having the Obamas as Americas first couple, will help usher in a new era of fidelity. Or if nothing else, it can serve as a model of what a healthy, egalitarian relationship can look like.
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Barack walks on water, you know. After all, he IS the Messiah. Yet for some strange reason, Jesse Jackson wants to castrate him. You can't make this stuff up.— There He Is- Comment removed.
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- I hate when people do this, you know NOTHING about the Obama family life. Didn't the Clintons look great from afar, and the Kennedys? Just hope he's a good president, and that's it.— G
- The only thing that "Nickpa 1" ever picked up at 13Th.& Locust was a busted hemorrhoid.— JackBP
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